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	The Secretariat STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE SECRETARIAT
		The major elements of the Secretariat, variously designated as offices, departments, programs, conferences, and the like, are headed by officials of the rank, but not necessarily the title, of under secretary-general or assistant secretary-general.
		It is the principal entity of the UN Secretariat dealing with human rights issues, and is responsible for supervising the ratification and implementation of the international human rights agreements.
		UN member governments attach great importance to having a fair proportion of their nationals employed in the Secretariat.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /United-Nations/The-Secretariat-STRUCTURE-AND-COMPOSITION-OF-THE-SECRETARIAT.html (2286 words)

	Secretariat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The duties carried out by the Secretariat are as varied as the problems dealt with by the United Nations.
		Secretariat staff also inform the world's communications media about the work of the United Nations; organize international conferences on issues of worldwide concern; and interpret speeches and translate documents into the Organization's official languages.
		The Secretariat has a staff of about 8,900 under the regular budget drawn from some 170 countries.
	www.un.org /documents/st.htm (296 words)

	UN Secretariat \| UNAUSA.org
		The Secretariat of the United Nations carries out the day-to-day operations of the organization and administers the programs and policies established by the various organs of the UN.
		The chief administrative officer of the UN and head of the Secretariat is the Secretary-General, who is elected for a five-year term by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.
		The Secretary-General is authorized by the UN Charter to bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter that he believes may threaten international peace and security (Article 99) and may use his good offices to attempt to resolve international disputes.
	www.unausa.org /site/pp.aspx?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=328669&printmode=1 (956 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| energy The UN's vanishing billions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It became a free-for-all where the UN was approving patently dubious grants that had nothing to do with its humanitarian mission, including grants to the national Sports Ministry that was bossed by Saddam's thug son, Uday.
		Although it was supposedly audited by the The U.N. Board of Auditors, which represents UN member states, very little information on the account has surfaced although it was reported to have had $13 billion in it at at the time of transfer to the Iraq coalition.
		UN Security Council Resolution 778 of 1992 gave the Secretary-General plenty of discretion over the escrow account, compounded by awarding the fund full UN "privileges and immunities".
	www.mineweb.net /sections/energy/billions.htm (1358 words)

	UN-NGLS Publications: Gender on the Agenda
		Preparing for UN world conferences usually requires a minimum of two years during which the agenda, objectives, and scope of the conferences and their outcomes are determined by Member States of the United Nations.
		UN Agencies, Programmes, and Fund Various UN bodies contribute to the preparations of UN world conferences and monitor the implementation of conference results.
		A special secretariat may be set up or the task may be given to an existing part of the UN Secretariat.
	www.unsystem.org /ngls/documents/publications.en/gender/pg.03.htm (918 words)

	Bratt - Preparing Peacekeeping for the 21st Century: Improving the UN Secretariat's Institutional Capability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The UN Secretariat is also ultimately responsible for ensuring that the peacekeeping force is sufficiently trained and equipped, and that it has an adequate communications ability.
		For example, the UN Secretariat, despite the knowledge that the signing of the Paris Accords was imminent, did not plan for a peacekeeping operation to implement the agreement.
		In addition to the organizational responsibilities of the UN Secretariat, the role of the peacekeeping force is an important component in assessing the UN's institutional capability.
	www.usafa.af.mil /df/dfmi/airman/bratt~1.htm (4163 words)

	Myths & Facts - The United Nations
		Ironically, UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 proposed the bilateral negotiations that are consistently undermined by the General Assembly resolutions.
		In February 2003, Israel was elected to serve on the UN General Assembly Working Group on Disarmament, its first committee posting since 1961 (after 1961, the UN split the membership into regional groups and that was when Israel became isolated).
		UN resolutions are documents issued by political bodies and need to be interpreted in light of the constitution of those bodies.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/myths/mf13.html (3323 words)

	Inside the United Nations Secretariat - Advice for Jobs Overseas from Monster.com
		The important caveat that the UN be representative of the constituency it serves, so it must balance its hiring with nationals from all over the world.
		The UN Secretariat is based in New York, but there are also UN Secretariat offices and related agencies in Chile, Geneva, Vienna, Bangkok and Nairobi.
		The UN Secretariat has opportunities in several different areas, but social development and political affairs are two of the first area that come to mind when considering work at the UN.
	workabroad.monster.com /articles/un (990 words)

	LifeSite Special Report - The UN Quietly Wages War on Religion
		UN executives appear to be particularly tolerant of "Gaia" or "earth religion," ancient paganism in a new guise.
		UN watchdog Austin Ruse, director of New York's Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, said there is a "complete disconnect" between the national delegates in the UN General Assembly -- "the committee of sovereign nations" -- and the unelected executives of the UN Secretariat, who aspire to world government.
		UN committees are staffed largely by former civil servants from Japan, the European Union, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, said REAL Women of Canada vice-president Gwen Landolt, who has done pro-family lobbying at UN conferences.
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2001/aug/010820a.html (2030 words)

	UN Management Reform
		UN Member States, and particularly its largest contributors, want to know if they are getting the most value for the dollars they contribute.
		For example, he asks the UN General Assembly to review all UN mandated activities over five years old to see whether they are still genuinely needed or whether the resources assigned to them could be reallocated to respond to new and emerging challenges.
		UN Staff Regulations already state that staff "shall avoid any action and, in particular, any kind of public pronouncement that may adversely reflect on their status, or on the integrity, independence and impartiality that are required by that status" (emphasis added).
	www.state.gov /p/io/rls/rm/46642.htm (4183 words)

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		The UN: the Secretariat and the Sanctions Committees
		The Secretariat and the SACOs are in communication with each other, as well as with a number of relevant actors for the implementation of targeted sanctions, namely, other international organizations, sub-regional organizations, private sector, member states, and targeted units.
		UN relations with the private sector are perhaps more limited UN-SROs relations, and the only formal process of engagement with the private sector has been the Kimberley Process.
	www.smartsanctions.se /stockholm_process/reports/archive/wg1_rep1.htm (1736 words)

	UN SECRETARIAT RESTRUCTURING JEOPARDISING ITC.
		Boutros-Ghali would appear to have decided that in line with his secretariat restructuring exercise, the post of the head of the ITC, Executive Director, should be downgraded and the new candidate, selected by the GATT and UNCTAD, should be given only a one-year tenure as for other senior UN posts.
		In March the General Assembly, while approving the launching of a process of restructuring and streamlining of the secretariat stopped short of endorsing the changes announced and merely "took note of the positive actions".
		It then went on to lay down "criteria" for the reorganisation and asked the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at the earliest opportunity a "report on the programmatic impact as well as financial implications of the organisational changes involved in his initiatives and progress attained" in accordance with the resolution.
	www.sunsonline.org /trade/process/during/uruguay/other/04090092.htm (973 words)

	UN Secretariat and Assembly Must Approve New Rules for UN Peacekeepers – Report
		March 24, 2005 –; (UN News) A new report requested by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on sexual exploitation occurring in peacekeeping missions recommends the UN standardize rules so that all personnel are held equally accountable and that laws in troop-contributor countries and individual responsibility for victims, including "peacekeeper babies," be strengthened.
		Upon identification through blood or DNA tests, fathers who are not UN staff members could make payments to a proposed UN Trust Fund for Victims, which would also take care of children whose fathers were known to be peacekeepers, but who could not be identified.
		A UN staff member who is a father of a peacekeeper baby, in addition to facing other punishments set out under UN regulations, could pay the mother "say, the equivalent of one year's salary of a local employee of the mission," the report says.
	www.peacewomen.org /un/pkwatch/News/05/newrules.html (779 words)

	Merits of Moving the UN HQ to Baghdad
		There is however a medium-term argument with respect to the relocation of the UN Secretariat itself -- an operation that extends far beyond the time horizon addressed by Simon Jenkins and is relevant to current issues of renovating the existing UN Secretariat building already constrained for space.
		In summary, the UN General Assembly is likely to choose, and the City should support, a plan for the UN to thoroughly renovate its present headquarters complex over a number of years.
		Another imaginative idea to explore is construction of a new conference hall for meetings and conferences during renovation of the UN headquarters, and later using the space as a cultural venue and/or as a location for the fall general debate if the new location affords easier high-security access for Heads of State.
	laetusinpraesens.org /musings/untobag.php (1339 words)

	United Nations Secretariat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Nations Secretariat is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and it is headed by the United Nations Secretary General, assisted by a staff of international civil servants worldwide.
		The United Nations Charter provides that the staff be chosen by application of the "highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity," with due regard for the importance of recruiting on a wide geographical basis.
		Each UN member country is enjoined to respect the international character of the Secretariat and not seek to influence its staff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UN_Secretariat (469 words)

	Worldwide Campaign Against Israel
		Ten such meetings, sponsored and paid for by the UN and attended by country and NGO representatives as well as representatives of other UN agencies, were held during the last three years, including three each in New York and Geneva, and one each in Beijing, Cape Town, Kiev, and Rabat.
		It is clearly highly inappropriate for the UN Secretariat to take a position favoring one side on an issue that is in sharp contention among the interested parties and in which the UN is to be an impartial mediator of the dispute -- and to advertise its one-sided position on its Website.
		The reports, presumably authored by personnel from the Division for Palestinian Rights, are clear evidence that the staff of the UN Secretariat prepares official documents that are studded with legal errors and factual misrepresentations to advance a cause -- all in clear violation of its responsibilities under Article 100 of the UN Charter.
	www.zionism-israel.com /issues/The_UN_and_Israel_AJIRI.html (2266 words)

	Inner City Press -- Investigative Journalism from the United Nations
		Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN UNITED NATIONS, May 17, updated May 23 -- There is a publication which the UN withholds from the public, which lists staff of the UN Secretariat sorted by nationality.
		While France had 1046 UN Secretariat jobs, Japan had only 213.
		The question remains why this basic information -- names of UN staff members, the job level and location, their nationalities and pay-status -- is being withheld from the press and public.
	www.innercitypress.com /unlist051707.html (1286 words)

	NGOs and the United Nations - Global Policy Forum - NGOs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Secretariat has imposed onerous fees for access to electronic UN documents through the Optical Disk System and it is also considering a fee for access to the Treaty Database, now provided for free.
		Secretariat staff argued that under stringent budget conditions, a fee was necessary to "charge-back" the cost of new computer hardware and phone lines.
		Increasingly, in 1998 and after, UN security barred NGOs from access to the main floor of the General Assembly chamber or the lower galleries, from the Second floor hallway and meeting chambers in the Conference building, and from the Delegates' Lounge.
	www.globalpolicy.org /ngos/docs99/gpfrep.htm (5832 words)

	Inside the United Nations Secretariat (Work Abroad feature)
		The UN Secretariat is based in New York, but there are also UN Secretariat offices and related agencies in Chile, Geneva, Vienna, Bangkok and Nairobi.
		Contact your country mission to the UN to find out if the exam will be offered there this year and to learn if you qualify in terms of age and educational background.
		The UN Secretariat has opportunities in several different areas, but social development and political affairs are two of the first area that come to mind when considering work at the UN.
	international.monster.fr /workabroad/articles/un (901 words)

	Limited Publication Policy of the UN Secretariat
		The Secretariat is designated in Article 102 as the organ with which registration or filing and recording is effected.
		Under Article 102 of the Charter and the Regulations, the Secretariat is responsible for the registration and publication of treaties.
		It is the understanding of the Secretariat that its action does not confer on the instrument the status of a treaty or an international agreement if it does not already have that status and does not confer on a party a status which it would not otherwise have.
	untreaty.un.org /ola-internet/Assistance/LimPub.htm (720 words)

	UN Secretariat
		The employees of the Secretariat are deployed across the world and carry out all functions requested by other bodies of the United Nations.
		Members of the Secretariat are responsible for activities that range from preparing reports on any topic requested by the General Assembly to helping with the implementation of troop deployments.
		While the Secretary-general is described in the UN Charter as primarily an administrator, Secretaries-General are often viewed as the public face of the United Nations.
	www.peacewomen.org /un/sec/sec.html (489 words)

	The Conduct of the UN before and after the 2003 Invasion
		The UN Secretariat did not react even at this critical time when the very foundation of the institution was threatened.
		The UN Secretariat should have used this to confront the two governments about their war plans but chose not to do so.
		As individuals who understand and cherish the ethos of the UN Charter, who believe in peace and justice for all, who are abhorred by what has happened in Iraq before, during and after the illegal war, we must first and foremost work on ourselves to become equipped for the tasks ahead.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article9292.htm (2009 words)

	ZNet \|Foreign Policy \| US Attacks UN
		The escalating attacks on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, including calls for his resignation, are not responses to any "scandal." Rather, they must be seen as major attacks on the United Nations as a whole.
		After all, the UN's official independent investigation of the oil-for-food imbroglio, under the direction of quintessential Washington insider and former Fed chief Paul Volcker, has been underway for months and is expected to produce its first interim report in January.
		Benon Sevan, a long-time UN employee who was in charge of the UN's Office of the Iraq Program and thus nominally overseeing the oil-for-food program, is alleged to have been on Iraq's list of oil allocation recipients.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=6840 (2321 words)

	Secretariat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee, a key body that controls the central administration of the Communist Party
		UN Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations
		The Secretariat of the European Parliament, in Luxembourg
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secretariat (140 words)

	Convention on Biological Diversity
		Given the commitment by Parties to the Convention to respect, preserve, maintain and promote the wider use of traditional knowledge with the approval and involvement of the users of such knowledge, indigenous and local communities have a direct interest in the work of the Convention.
		The Secretariat invites children and youth, the leaders of tomorrow, to take action for the protection of life on Earth.
		The Secretariat welcomes general information on steps taken towards the implementation of this decision and, in particular, seeks information on initiatives taken by Parties.
	www.biodiv.org (966 words)

	The United Nations Secretariat at Beijing
		In examining the question, the UN could draw on research which showed that a major reason for women not being elected to public office was that they were not presented as candidates.
		In the UN’s statistical publications on advancement of women, the norm of 30 percent was used as an indicator of progress, including The World’s Women: Trends and Statistics and its 1995 update.
		With new UN statistics available, the Division began to explore what had been some of the long-term consequences for women of the global economic transformation.
	classes.maxwell.syr.edu /intlmgt/readings/secretariatbeijing.htm (3482 words)

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